End-gate for wagons



J. A. REE-D.-

END GATE FOR WAGONS.

No. 352,201. Patented Nov. 9, 1886.

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PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN A. REED, OF BEATRICE, NEBRASKA.

' 4 END-GATE FOR 'WA'GONS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No; 352,201, dated November 9, 1886.

Application filed A ril 16, 1886. Serial No. 199,146. (No model.)

ings, and to the letters and figures of refer-- ence marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention has relation to gate ends for wagon-boxes; and it consists in the novel construction and arrangement of its parts and the attachments to the box.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my gate end. attached to a wagon-box with the gate end closed. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same with the gate end let down. Fig. 3 is a bottom view of the wagon-box and of the gate end closed. Fig. 4 is a bottom view of the same with the gate end let down.

My invention is described as follows: To an ordinary wagon-box, A, I secure the following attachments: On each outer side of the box, some two or three feet from the rear end, I secure metal bars 1, in each of which, near their upper ends, is pivoted a turning-button, 2, and about midway the said bars is secured a stationary hook, 3, the purpose-of which is hereinafter explained. On the bottom of said wagon-box I securely bolt two slotted plates, 4, by means of bolts'and nuts 5, the bolts of which pass through the bottom of the wagonbox, the crossbar 11, and the slots in said slotted plates 4.

Gate end B is made as follows: The planks 6, which close the end of the wagon-box end, are cut a little longer than the said box is deep, and are secured to an upper crosspiece, 7, which is a little longer than the wagon-box is wide, and a lower cross-piece, 8, which is considerably longert-han the box is wide. To the front edge of these planks 6 are securedflanges 9, which are wide enough apart to allow the end of the box to go in between. These flanges 9 have to their front ends an extension, '10, which comes down below and in front of a cross-piece, 11, bolted to the bottom and near the rear end of said box. This arrangement is to prevent the lower end of the said wagon-gate from breaking loose from the box, even under great pressure. To the rear face of the lower cross-bar, 8, of the end-gate B are secured two hooks, 12, which pass through slots in slotted plates 4, which also assist, in conjunction with the bolts and nuts 5, in holding the lower end of the gate end in place. These hooks and slotted plates serve also another purpose, which is hereinafter described. These flanges'9 are secured to the front face of the planks 6 of the gate end'by a bar of metal, 13, which is screwed or otherwise secured to the lower end and outer face of thesarne, and the rear end of said bar of metal is turned square out and secured to the front face of the lower cross-bar, 8, and by a bar of metal, 14, which passes through the upper end of said flange 9 and through plank 6, and then has its outer end, 15, turned square down and secured to the rear face of said plank. The front end of said bar of metal has through it an eye, 16, to which is attached, by a link, a plate, 17, having an eye in each end and a button-hole in its center, which works over turning button 2. To the front end of said plate 17 is secured a link chain, 18, the links of which are made to fit between the bar 1 and the hook 3.

This end-gate can be taken entirely off and put on at pleasure. It is put on as follows: It is presented to the rear end of said box on a horizontal line with the bottom of the said box, "as shown in Fig. 4, and the bent ends of the hooks 12 are passed through. slots in the slotted plate 4. Then the outer end of the said gate is raised, and as it rises the said' gate is let down by turning the long end of the button to the rear, and then the plates 17 can he slipped off, and the gate can be let down Ieo at any angle and secured by passing the links of I end of said box, plates 14, secured to the upper the chain 18 between the plate 1 and the hook 1 end of gate B, plates 17, secured to said plates 3, as shown in Fig. 2. 14, bars 1, secured to the outer face of said box, 15 Having thus described myinvention,what1 hooks 3, secured to said bars, and turning 5 claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters buttons 2, pivoted in the upper end of said Patent, is-- bars, all substantially as shown and described,

The combination of the gate end B, as deand for the purposes set forth. scribed, the hooks 12, secured to the outer face 4 of the lower crosspiece, 8, slotted plates 4, sc- JOHN REED IO cured to the bottom of the cross-piece 11 of the said box by means of bolts and nuts 5, cross-piece 11, secured to the bottom and rear I \Vitnesses:

\V. A. GOBLE, E. E. HARRIS. 

